For a Dirac spinor a spatial rotation acts in each chiral block by a matrix exponential , depending on angle orientation. Since for a unit axis, the Pauli matrix multiplication law gives this exponential as . At it is , and at it is . A vector returns already at . This describes the lift of the rotation loop to the Spin group, rather than a single-valued representation of the ordinary rotation group on spinors.
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